MomTracker

[featherynscale]

Time of call: 33 minutes, 17 seconds.
Questions about love life: 7*.
New tactics introduced: "Do your friends ever try to set you up with anybody?" "Do your roommates work with anybody you'd want to date?"
Pleas for grandchildren: 1.
Response to denial re grandchildren: "Oh, everybody says that until they find Mr. Right."
Implications that I'm wasting my life: 3.
Questions about job: 0**.

* - Record High.
** - Record Low.

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

As much as it probably sounds glib, I would suggest you pointedly inform your mother that if she can ask you about nothing other than marriage and children, her aspirations for you are not high enough, in your opinion and you are not going to waste your time talking to her.

Then if she does it again, don't.


D.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Ah, she has other aspirations for me as well, including that I should write novels and possibly go into politics, I just don't get to hear about those aspirations every time we talk. I understand that in my family, those who are not married by age 20 are not terribly likely to get married at all, and I regret to say that in all probability I'll bear out that pattern, so I would imagine that she's just concerned about my old-maid-ness. Presumably if I were to tell her that I was seeing someone, she'd revert to the novel-writing and the politics.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

And here I pause to give thanks for my Very Ordinary Family of Origin. I didn't know how lucky I was. (knock on wood)